Comments on: Morning Five: 12.14.09 Edition

By: Rick Thompson

Rick Thompson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:44:00 +0000

‘Run it up Roy’ got his concentration interrupted and got mad. He was tryng to figure out how to win by 100.

By: william

william — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:30 +0000

Yeah I agree it just looks bad by Roy. Just a dumb, indefensible move. The “he was intoxicated”excuse is just dumb.

Did Roy smell his breath from the court and decide to do everyone a service by having hi removed? Come on people, I know you love your coach (and you should) but there is no excuse for Roy’s megalomaniac like behavior.

Roy has always been controlling (as are most coaches) but this just goes too far.

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:07 +0000

In reply to Eric.

Eric – this is the post you’re referring to, right? http://live-blogs.fayobserver.com/accbasketball/December-2009/Roy-freaks-out-over-heckler,-asks-everyone-else-to

You may want to re-read it yourself, actually, b/c Wiederer in no way backs off his criticism of Roy’s hypersensitivity in this incident.

Your speculation is just that, speculation, and the fact that you’re taking an after-the-fact explanation by the school’s SID at face value shows that you’re not even attempting to be objective here.

The fan _may_ have been intoxicated? Is that the new standard in the Roy Doctrine? Well, let’s just go through and give a Breathalyzer to every UNC fan in the building on a Saturday night, shall we? Or does this standard only apply to opposing fans who yell at a player to miss a FT in the Dean Dome? And how would Roy know that from 20 rows away?

Did you read the player comments? Even they knew that it was over the line in terms of normalcy.

And since when is it Roy’s job to go around policing who sits where – doesn’t he have a team to coach? Alleged vulgarity? Where/when is the evidence of that? The article clearly states that there’s no evidence of that.

Let’s be serious here. Roy overreacted, and he knows it.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:34:48 +0000

You need to go back and re-read Wiederer’s post. The guy was intoxicated and likely didn’t have a ticket to sit in that seat. Did anyone think that perhaps his intoxication was bothering the fans around him and the players on the bench? Perhaps Roy’s wife was sitting nearby, or his granddaughter? Was there vulgarity used in the taunt that caught Roy’s ear?